Should I start Corey Kiner or Brian Thomas Jr. in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Corey Kiner: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brian Thomas Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 4.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Brian Thomas Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 129th highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.

Corey Kiner's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 11 percent of NE snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against JAX he carried 6 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BUF he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LV he carried 6 times for 52 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Brian Thomas Jr. has been on the field for 48 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.

In Week 3 against NE he caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CIN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Corey Kiner played 4 games and scored 9.3 PPR points, 2.3 a game, finishing RB112.

He carried 12 times for 58 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 more yards.

That came to 3.0 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 7 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Brian Thomas Jr. played 14 games and scored 138.8 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing WR42.

He caught 48 of 91 targets for 707 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 14.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Brian Thomas Jr. was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brian Thomas Jr. scored 9.9 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 7.6 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 and Brian Thomas Jr. WR42, which are two different ladders.

Corey Kiner is a running back and Brian Thomas Jr. a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Brian Thomas Jr. is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Corey Kiner.

What would change the answer

Corey Kiner is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.